It’s dingy and well-used — the 26th and California criminal courthouse — but crews were busy this week working to spruce the place up a bit just in time for a certain high-profile murder trial. While the work’s officially described as part of routine... more

Mayor Rahm Emanuel went on the defensive Thursday about a surge of homicides so far in 2012 and questioned why new law enforcement tactics hadn't been employed before he was elected 10 months ago. Photo Credit: NBCChicago.com more

Homicides in Chicago soared by 60 percent in the first three months of 2012, continuing a troublesome trend that began late last year. Nonfatal shootings also rose sharply in the first quarter, Police Department statistics show. more

A scuffle outside the Criminal Court building landed one man behind bars and a Cook County State’s Attorney’s office investigator in the hospital Wednesday afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood, police said. more

Homicides in Chicago soared by 60 percent in the first three months of 2012, continuing a troublesome trend that began late last year. Nonfatal shootings also rose sharply in the first quarter, Police Department statistics show. more

A look at the site of a once-great soccer stadium by Kelsey Gee Chicago is a city of immigrants. You can see it in the Senegalese restaurants along 79th Street, the characters marking the Chinatown Citibank, the suburban transplants in Wrigleyville.… [ Read more ... more

The Chicago Board of Education’s inspector general is investigating the school system’s largest milk-delivery company, McMahon Food Corp., which recently lost its certification as a woman-owned business, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
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A bill in Springfield could preempt a proposed federal immigrant detention center in the Chicago south suburb of Crete. Immigration advocates and state lawmakers have seized on the fact that the civil detention facility would be privately operated by the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America, or CCA – an issue... more

Dozens of illegal immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes – or were otherwise considered fugitives or threats to national security – have been arrested in the Chicago area as part of a nationwide sweep that captured approximately 3,100 immigrants.more